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> Perhaps, but then I would expect people in a post-scarcity society to be fine with the idea that life is not fair - that it's not possible for everyone to hav

• TeMPOraL 5y ago
  > Life today is better than it has been at any time in history with more opportunities and luxuries more accessible than ever and people still complain. I think the complaints can be divided into two parts: - Complaining about how their life is still full of pain and problems; - Complaining about how the world sucks, is unjust, discriminating, etc. Humans have infinite capacity for that second type of complaints, but I posit that the first type should go away once life gets good enough. And note that even for most Westerners, "with more opportunities and luxuries more accessible than ever", the life isn't good because they don't get to make much use of those opportunities and luxuries. They spend almost all their life working in bad physical or mental (or both) conditions, having little time to enjoy those luxuries and opportunities, because they need to keep making money to pay for access. Rents, mortgages and everything-as-a-service are mostly cancelling out the quality-of-life increase from better products and healthcare.